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I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

- Trent Reznor
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Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

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I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the arcade, and a lot of my great childhood memories were around a 'Tempest' machine.

I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.

When I'm on stage, the songs that we've chosen to play from the back catalog are things that still resonate with me, and matter to me. And the songs that I couldn't be a part of, we don't play anymore.

What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.

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I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.